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gjm comments on HP:MOR and the Radio Fallacy - Less Wrong Discussion

22 Post author: RichardChappell 21 July 2012 07:55PM

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Comment author: gjm 22 July 2012 10:07:40AM 13 points [-]

That doesn't seem at all similar. The brain is, in this analogy, more like an instrument where if you remove one string it still works for most things but will no longer let you play anything by Mozart, and if you remove another everything comes out syncopated, and if you remove another then you can still play everything but all rubato disappears so that rhythms become metronomic. See also my reply to billswift.